> Of course (not that they were different in all respects.) Stealing land
> was an obvious one. Tarrifs were very important and more or less coincided
> with the conditions that allowed Big Business to develop in the first
> place. And you had purposes served under the antebellum South, although
> I'd say that
> doesn't count, since it was neither capitalist nor liberal.
Ah, but the South *was* capitalist, through and through. Not industrial capitalism, true, but plantation/mercantile capitalism -- slaves were commodities with price tags, and their labor-power and production were sold on world markets. Plantations were the first global factories (Rediker and Linebaugh's "The Many-headed Hydra" makes this point somewhere).
-- DRR